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Lion Time Machine Backup to Snow Leopard Machine

  • 09-08-2011 3:15pm
    #1
    donutheadhomer
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    Silly question here now (aren't they all)

    My most recent time machine backup was done with Lion installed. If I change the OS back to Snow Leopard can I still retrieve data from the time machine drive?


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,698 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Because you've backed up using Lion you won't be able to use Migration Assistant to migrate your apps and user account to a clean install of SL. It won't work. So afaik your only options are:

    - Restore to SL using a pre-Lion TM backup. You would do this by erasing your hard disk and using "Restore from Time Machine" in the Utilities menu of the install disc to select a backup from BEFORE Lion installed. This would restore your system to exactly as it was on that date. Any new data since Lion was installed would have to copied over from the TM drive manually. I'd only recommend this if you upgraded to Lion quite recently or don't mind losing recent changes.

    - Or you could just do a clean install SL and copy everything over manually. A lot of hassle but probably the better option.

    Why are you downgrading?


  • #3
    donutheadhomer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭donutheadhomer


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Because you've backed up using Lion you won't be able to use Migration Assistant to migrate your apps and user account to a clean install of SL. It won't work. So afaik your only options are:

    - Restore to SL using a pre-Lion TM backup. You would do this by erasing your hard disk and using "Restore from Time Machine" in the Utilities menu of the install disc to select a backup from BEFORE Lion installed. This would restore your system to exactly as it was on that date. Any new data since Lion was installed would have to copied over from the TM drive manually. I'd only recommend this if you upgraded to Lion quite recently or don't mind losing recent changes.

    - Or you could just do a clean install SL and copy everything over manually. A lot of hassle but probably the better option.

    Why are you downgrading?

    Work VPN uses Samba for filesharing and I can't see any of their drives


  • #4
    Creamy Goodness
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    is it not simple enough to just install samba on lion?


  • #5
    opinion guy
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    No. Its not supported. Check out the Lion thread


  • #6
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,698 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    You can install Samba on Lion using MacPorts. It involves quite a bit of Terminal work though.


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